Display-carton



FREDERICK-GEORGE FISHER.

DISPLAY CARTON.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 8. I920.

Patented D60. 14, 1920.

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DISPLAY CARTON.

APPLICATION HLED MAR. 8, 1920.

1,362,565, Patented Dec. 1 1, 1920.

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FREDERICK-GEORGE FISHER, OF BOSTON,

FOLDING BOX COMPANY, OF NEW I-IAV JERSEY.

MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO NATIONAL EN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OFNEW DISPLAY-CARTON.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 14, 1920.

Application filed March 8, 1920. Serial No. 364,049.

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK-GEORGE FIsHER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residin at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and tate ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Display-Cartons, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements incollapsible or knockdown paper boxes, which may be shipped in theircollapsed condition or stored until wanted for use when they may bereadily constructed or folded into box shape by the user, and has forone of its objects to provide a box of collapsible nature, which may bemade from a single blank, so cut as to be economical of material and atthe same time have all the parts of the box comprising integral parts ofsaid blank. A further object is to arrange a display flap integral wlththe box which may be turned back to displayadvertisement or the likeprinted thereon. .A still further object of the invention is to soconstruct an easel for support of the box that all of its parts may bemade integral with the blank from which the box is formed.

In the accompanying drawings,-

Figure 1 represents the blank from which my collapsible box is made.

Fig. 2 showsthe box in its first stage of formation with the two edgessecured together.

Fig. 3 shows the same with the display flap turned down upon the bottomof box and showing the end flaps and end sections.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the box at 7 one stage of its formation.

Fig. 5 shows the end sections bent into place with only the steps ofbending the end flaps into place and turning the display flap intodisplay position remaining to be accomplished. t

Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section through the box showing the parts inoperative position as a display receptacle and the easel in place.

Fig. 7 is a view in perspective of the lower end of the box, the wallsbeing broken away to show in section the double construction thereof.

- Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the box assembled showing the displayflap turned to operative position.

D and then folded along the line Fig. 9 is a perspective view of theunderside of the box.

In the drawings it will be assumed for purposes of illustration that theblank of which the box is to be formed is made of cardboard. The blankcomprises in a general way the'following parts: bottom sections 14 and15, side panels 25 and 26, end sections 16, 17, 18 and 19, end flaps 20and 21, a display flap 22, an easel orsupport'ingmember 23, and asecuring strip or lap 24. lVhen formed into a box the sections 14 and 15constitute a double bottom and the panels 25 and 26 form double sidewalls. The purpose of these double members will hereinafter appear.

\ In preparing a commercial product from the blank shown in Fig. 1 whichwill be ready to be made up in box form by the user, by simply foldingthe parts into place, I fold the side panels upon their dividing lines-A-A and B--B and unite the edge of inner bottom member 14 with thesecuring strip or lap 24 by any suitable means, as glue or. paste, or bymechanical fasteners. The strip 24, asshown in Fig.2 is slipped underthe inner bottom member 14 and said bottom. member is extended over thewhole surface of said strip, so as to present a neat and finishedappearance when the box-is assembled.

As an article of manufacture, the device is at this stage complete andready for delivcry to the user.

The article ma be made up as a package for goods in the followingmanner: The si panels are turned on lines X- -X up at right anglesto thebottom members, as shown in F i 4, forming the sides; the display flapis Iient down on line C toward the bottom member 14, and the end pieces16 and 17 are bent on lines Y, Y, so as to overlap each other, as shownin Fig. 5: The end pieces are secured in this position by means of theend flap 20, which is bent up alon the line F, so that the portion 27thereof fits on the inside of the box as finally constructed, the partof the flap to which the number 20 is aplplied then lying outside of theend members. This construction provides a four ply wall at what may betermed the upper end of the box.

The opposite end of 'thebox, which may be termed the lower end, isprovided with a four ply wall made by first bending in the ofthe deviceis completed, the box is ready I end section 19, on the right hand lineZ (Figs. 1 and 3), bending in thereagainst the end section 18, andfolding the end flap 21 up and over the two end sections. The section 19has a centrallylocated notch, and the portion 29 which folds insideofthe box is shorter than the corresponding portion 27 of flap 20 andhas a centrally located tab 31 extending therefrom, and adapted bothwith respect to location and shape to pass through the notch in section19 and to liebetween said section and section 18 when the box iscompleted, as shown in Fig. 6. The portion 29 oftheflap 21 bears againstthe portions of section 19 on either side of the notch and with theportion 30 of the tab on the outside braces the same, and the flapitself is held in place by the tab inserted through the notch, as abovedescribed. In this way the parts cooperate to mutually lock each otherin place and to hold the parts in assembled position. When this step inthe assembling to serve as a container for goods.

In order to adapt the box to display'the contained goods, I haveprovided my box with an easel-like support 23, which is formed bycutting an elongated strip or tongue from the outer bottom member 15.This strip is severed from member 15 by cutting it along three sides andleaving it attached along one end only.

This strip is formed with a bending line FF, or is otherwise adapted tobe bent so as to be readily formed into an easel or support. The innerbottom member 14 is provided with an abutment tongue 32 integrallyformed therewith by cutting on all but one side from the bottom member14 and adapted to be bent downward to receive the end of the easel andhold the same in orting position.

he purpose of the easel, as indicated above, is to raise one end of thebox so that the article therein contained will be the better'presentedtoview, and in order that a legend or advertisement relating thereto maybe presented advantageously therewith.

The inner bottom member is provided with an extension or display flap 22which is adapted to be bent alon the line C-C and again along the lineK- at a distance from line C-C equal to about the height of the endwalls of the box over which the flap is adapted to be bent, and to restat an angle,

such that it advantageously displays the le end or advertisementthereon.

aving described the construction of my box, I will now point out some ofthe advantages obtained by forming the box in this particular way.- Itwill be observed, by reference to Fig.1 of the drawings, that the blankfrom which the box is to be made up is all of one piece and thatprojecting portions are so arranged that the necessary grally formed ina single blank, which is so cut and folded that a complete compact andstrong box is formed with no separable parts to become detached from therest of the box and consequently lost, no fastening devices are neededoutside of those integral with the blank itself, with the exception ofthe strip 24 and the attached edge of the member 14, which areglued'together."

The construction of my device, whereby the side walls and bottom of thebox are doubled, enables me to make my box of com paratively thinmaterial and yet produce a strong durable box. The end walls, beingcomposed of four plies of material, need no other reinforcement. Anadditional advantage of making my box with a double bottom is that by sodoing, I can form the easel member 23 from the outer bottom member andat the same time not destroy the box as a container, the abutment tongue32 may be formed from the inner bottom member, which may be adapted tocooperate with said easel to hold it in supporting position.

The lower end sections and the associated flap is held in place by theinterlocking arrangement, described above. A similar arrangement may beused at the upper end of the box but these parts are preferably held inplace .by means of the displa fiap, the portion between the lines C andK-K of which rest against the loose end of flap 27, when the box is inassembled position.

Another feature of m box is that when assembled, the same sur ace'of thematerial appears on the display tab and all other ex- 7 ternal surfacesof the box. This enables me to make my box of material finished only onone side, and print the advertising matter which may be applied all onone surface of the blank and in one impression.

Having thus explained the nature of my said invention and described away of making and using the same, although without .ing easel cut fromsaid outer bottom-member in integral union therewith at one end, and anabutment tongue formed in said inner bottom member adapted to cooperatewith the end of said easel, to hold said easel in-su porting position. I

2. n a display box having sides, ends and a double bottom comprisinginner and outer from said outer bottom member and in integral uniontherewith at one end, and an abutment tongue formed in said inner bottommember and being adapted to underlie the end of said easel insertedbetween said tongue and the inner bottom member whereby to retain saideasel in supporting position.

3. A display box having a bottom composed of two layers or plies ofboxboard or the like, the outer ply having cut from its .integralsubstance a tongue which remalns united thereto at one end and isadapted to be folded or bent on a transverse line, and an abutmenttongue out from the material of the inner ply and adapted to underlieand arrest the free end of the first named tongue and located in such aposition that when so engaged With the free end, the first named tongueWill be held bent on the before mentioned bending line to projectoutwardly from the box bottom.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature.

' FREDERICK GEORGE FISHER.

